Elon fangirl put up a video about his “master plan for all our lives”. Turn off the sound, it’s captioned. Well, unless you like cringy autotuned country music. Best line: “one more kid, one more brand, launching rockets with just one hand.” Some people are just fucking crazy.
Elon prototypes his first space swastika.
The number of arms needs work.
Is it unfair that I have unfavourable opinions about the women that have children with Elmo?
I think I hold them in (slightly) higher regard than Elmo does, but still.
Not gonna lie, it’s actually kind of amazing that a rocket launch can cause a phenomenon like that and those pictures in the article are beautiful.
It’s probably terrible for the environment, though. This is why we can’t have nice things.
This was posted to the official World of Warcraft Facebook account today;
Sorry, you’re going to have to explain that one to me.
Right. So in the game Warcraft III, which takes place just before WoW Vanilla, Arthas is a paladin and the heir to the throne of Lordaeron when it comes under attack by the undead. As the cult responsible starts spreading the undeath virus by tainting the grain supply being sent to the major cities, Arthas becomes increasingly fanatical in his quest to purge the land of the undead, which leads to him slaughtering the entire population of Stratholme, one of the kingdom’s largest cities, before they have a chance to fall victim to the plague. He then pursues the demon leading the undead to the arctic continent of Northrend, where he learns about an ancient runeblade named Frostmourne (the subject of the above picture) which can slay demons - but when he finds it, he discovers that it was forged by the Lich King who created the undeath virus in the first place, and by wielding it he winds up forfeiting his soul and becoming the Lich King’s champion himself, and after killing the demon, he takes control of its army and winds up massacring his own people (and later on winds up succeeding him as Lich King.)
It’s basically the equivalent of putting an “I bought this before Elon went crazy” sticker on a Cybertruck, which was not released until well after Elon went full Nazi.
(You might also note that this is essentially the same story as that of Elric of Melnibone, to whom post-Frostmourne Arthas bears quite the aesthetic similarity. Blizzard has never been great at coming up with original plotlines. Above: Elric. Below: Arthas.)
I got it right away and laughed. 
(I’m an old school Warcraft 3 and WoW player.)
I’ve turned into a struldbrugg, utterly out of tune with modern culture.
I find the “Reader context” note to be the chef’s kiss.
A real Red Shirt Guy moment.
It’s okay, this is some really obscure nerdy shit. You’re fine.
Warcraft 3 came out 23 years ago.
Still the 21st century!
Yeah. I found the photo funny without knowing any of the Warcraft lore. It seemed clear it was commentary on the current ‘own a Tesla and feel the need to apologize’ situation.
Of course if it had been posted in a thread that didn’t name Elon Musk, I might not have made the connection.
I too knew nothing of the backstory but got the joke instantly.
OTOH …
I found the reader context note inexplicable and stupidly redundant, apparently saying nothing. To ignorant me it wasn’t chef’s kiss; it was hamhanded pointlessness.
It’s referencing a pre-existing meme photo.
Ahh, now it makes sense. Thank you.
I too, had not seen that one before.
Elon’s doing the million dollar “lottery” thing again in Wisconsin.
There is still a lawsuit in Pennsylvania about the one he did there in October. His argument is that it’s not chance, it’s an “opportunity to earn”. I’ll bet that’s not rigged at all.
Elon Musk says $1 million election giveaway wasn’t an illegal lottery | Reuters
By the time he definitively loses the PA lawsuit, he’ll have done this many more times, and have enough power that, like Trump, the cowarda will not dare put him in jail.